====== aics - ardour image compositor socket ======
{{:oss:sodankyla:screenshot-3.png?280 |ardour2 with aics, xjadeo and my girlfriend ;)}} 
{{:oss:sodankyla:screenshot-4.png?280 |ardour2 with aics}}
//aics// acts as back-end and interface for [[http://ardour.org|ardour]] providing an image time-line.  A basic user-interface is already integrated in ardour2; more advanced features are underway.

===== Setup =====
Preparing ardour2.8
  - edit ardour.menus (or ardour.menus.in when compiling ardour) and add ''<menuitem action='aniConnect'/>'' below the "AddTrackBus" entry.
  - make a dummy executable AniComp in the PATH eg. ''sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/AniComp /bin/true''
  - start ardour2

===== Usage =====
Download and unzip: http://rg42.org/_media/oss/sodankyla/aics-alpha9-static.gz

  ./aics-alpha9-static /some/video/file.avi

Select "Connect" from ardour's session menu. voila.

//aics// takes a few options, run ''./aics --help'' for a full list. Most importantly ''-r <jack-sample-rate>'' (default 48000)  ''-i <sec>'' interval between images of the displayed sequence (default 5 sec) and ''-C'' (don't cache images on //aics// startup.

===== Devel =====

The source of aics is available via
  git clone git://rg42.org/sodankyla
It's a bit tricky to compile hence the statically linked binary..

Provide feedback directly by [[www:contact|email]] or contact me on the [[http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org|ardour-developer list]].

{{tag>jack video floss}}